Kathleen Chalfant

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Broadway: ENCORE! presentation of
Bloomer Girl (Dolly Bloomer),
Angels in America (Tony and
Drama Desk nominations), Racing
Demon (New York premiere, directed
by Richard Eyre), Dance With Me,
M. Butterfly. Off-Broadway:
The Last Letter by Vasily
Grossman directed by Frederick Wiseman,
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads,
Savannah Bay by Marguerite
Duras, Far Away by Caryl
Churchill, The Vagina Monologues
with Nell Carter and Annabella Sciorra,
Wit (Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille
Lortel, and Outer Critics Awards),
Nine Armenians (Drama Desk
Nomination), Twelve Dreams
(written and directed by James Lapine),
Henry V (New York Shakespeare
Festival, directed by Doug Hughes,
Callaway Award), True History and
Real Adventures (by Sybille
Pearson, directed by Michael Mayer).
Other New York credits: Phaedra in
Delirium (CSC), Iphigenia and
Other Daughters (by Ellen
McLaughlin), Endgame (directed
by David Esbjornson), The Party
(from three stories by Virginia Woolf
adapted by Ellen McLaughlin, directed
by David Esbjornson), Three
Poets (by Romulus Linney),
Sister Mary Ignatius . . . (by
Christopher Durang), Just Say No
(by Larry Kramer), The Investigation
of the Murder in El Salvador (by
Charles Mee, directed by David
Schweitzer, New York Theatre Workshop),
Jules Feiffer’s Hold Me!
(directed by Caymichael Patten),
Signs of Life (by Joan
Schenkar). Regional theater: Long
Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage Company,
Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Sundance Playwrights Lab,
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill
Playhouse and others. Film: Murder
and Murder (written and directed by
Yvonne Rainer), Bob Roberts,
Five Corners, Jumpin’ At The
Boneyard, Dream Work (with
Eric Bogosian), A Price Above
Rubies, The Last Days of
Disco, Side Streets,
Random Hearts, Company
Man, Kinsey. TV: Jo
(Kate in the CBS pilot), The
Guardian (Laurie Solt in the series
for CBS), The Laramie Project,
Benjamin Franklin, A Death
in the Family (Aunt Hannah) for PBS
Masterpiece Theatre, Law & Order
(Lisa Cutler), Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit, Law & Order:
Criminal Intent, The Beat
(recurring role), Storm of the
Century (Stephen King miniseries
for ABC), Prince Street
(recurring role), Spin City,
LA Law, One Life to Live.
Radio: The Lion in Winter
(Eleanor of Aquitane) for LA
TheatreWorks with Alfred Molina. She
was a participant in V-Day 2001 at
Madison Square Garden and V-Day 2002 in
San Francisco and Sacramento,
California. The Lysistrata Project at
BAM. Awards: 1996 OBIE Award for
Sustained Excellence of Performance.
1998 Connecticut Critics Circle Award
(Wit). 2000 Ovation, Garland,
and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
awards (Los Angeles) for Wit.
Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards
for Body of Work. She is a founding
member of the Women’s Project and sits
on the board of The Vineyard Theatre,
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and
the Screen Actors Guild. She is an
advisor to Theaters Against War and a
signer of the Not In Our Name statement
of conscience.